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Hikers and mountain bikers in North Vancouver are elated after being told that they can again use Mt. Seymour land jointly owned by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. and the province of B.C. After a hastily called meeting, CMHC officials agreed Friday to allow trail-users back onto the 644-acre parcel of land as long […]

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VICTORIA — Entire communities have been honoured, individuals cited for heroism and boats blessed, but one year after the sinking of a whale-watching vessel off British Columbia that tossed 27 people into the churning Pacific, the wounds have barely started to heal. Five Britons and one Australian died on Oct. 25, 2015, when the 20-metre Leviathan […]

A conflict-of-interest allegation against a North Vancouver district councillor has been thrown out of court. In May, Hazen Colbert, a financial consultant, filed a petition in B.C. Supreme Court seeking an order that Coun. Mathew Bond had contravened the conflict-of-interest provisions contained in the Community Charter. The allegation related to Bond’s links to an association […]

RCMP say they have arrested a man suspected of robbing three businesses in Surrey while wearing inline skates. Cpl. Scotty Schumann says staff at businesses including a bakery and a gas station were threatened with a knife and robbed during robberies between Aug. 20 and Sept. 4. The suspect escaped on his skates. Schumann says […]

Police in Surrey are trying to nab a thief who makes his getaway on rollerblades. Surrey RCMP think the same suspect is responsible for the robbery of a gas station and a bakery, threatening employees with a knife in both cases before taking off on inline skates. The most recent theft occurred Aug. 21 around […]

Vancouver police on Thursday released a picture of the badly damaged vehicle believed to have been involved in the hit-and-run accident that killed Ryan Barron. At a media conference attended by Barron’s family members — who live in Windsor, Ont. — Vancouver Police Sgt. Randy Fincham showed for the first time a picture of a […]

VANCOUVER — Sean Chuma describes it as a spiritual moment, standing on the railing of the Perrine Bridge, 150 metres above the meandering Snake River in southern Idaho. Moments later, his mind completely focused on the present, he said he hurled himself into the stifling afternoon air. “I have a passion for flight,” the BASE jumping […]

SQUAMISH — Brohm Ridge is no stranger to recreational users. Tucked into towering Mount Garibaldi, overlooking the district of Squamish, the area has been popular with hikers, snowmobilers, backcountry skiers and mountain bikers for decades. But they’re not the only ones drawn to the alluring, wild area.

For two years, avid hiker and retiree Tineke Kraal would leave her Upper Lynn Valley home and head into the inky darkness on Mount Fromme to set booby traps for the mountain bikers who would arrive later in the day. She would start her hike at 4 a.m. and with her two Labrador retrievers by her side, was usually finished by 6 a.m., a packed North Vancouver provincial court heard Thursday as the frail 65-year-old was sentenced for her unrelenting pre-dawn campaign to rid the trails of mountain bikers.

What is it about bike lanes that provokes so much outrage? Reaction on social media to the news that the city plans a dozen new bike lanes and upgrades to existing ones over the next five years has been solidly negative, even hostile.

There is a moment near the end of the terrific, 30-minute film celebrating Whistler’s half-century anniversary, 50 Years of Going Beyond, that caught the ear of Darren Kinnaird, general manager of the resort’s Crankworx mountain bike festival. After 28 minutes of grainy footage of the big dreamers who built the mountain resort, the early “hot-dog” skiers, the star-studded World Cup downhill races of the 1980s, and then of the euphoria that accompanied the 2010 Olympics, the cameras capture a current-day slopestyle mountain biker soaring over a huge crowd.

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